Simone
Childminder in London
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Female Member since May 2023 Last Updated Dec 2024 Last Login 21 Dec 2024
My Summary
About Me
At Simone’s Child Care, we focus on providing a fun learning environment that fosters your child’s educational and social development whilst they are in our care. We pride ourselves on our friendly and experienced staff who aim to ensure that your child(ren) are always safe, happy and well taken care of in our warm and relaxed setting.
Our facilities include a teaching room, a sleeping room and an on-site garden. Throughout the day we do a range of activities, which have been designed in line with the EYFS 7 stages for learning and development. Some examples of the activities that we do include fun speaking and listening exercises, educational trips (e.g. to local libraries, parks and supermarkets), cooking and baking, physical activity sessions, gardening and ICT sessions.
At Simone’s Child Care we also offer three healthy hot meals daily (breakfast, lunch and tea) and a freshly prepared snack bar throughout the day. All meals are freshly prepared on-site.
My Experience
I have worked in children's education for over 25 years. Prior to opening Simone's Childcare, I spent the majority of my career as a preschool teacher of children aged 2-5 before transitioning to a management role.
My Qualifications
BA(Hons) in Education
Early Years Teacher Status
Foundation degree in Early Years
CACHE Level 3 Award in Preparing Home Based Childcare (QCF)
Safeguarding: Level 3 Safer recruitment and allegations
Prevent Duty: Level 3 Incorporating Evidencing British Values
TQUK Level 2 Principles of the prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care Settings
TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism
Paediatric Adult, Child and Infant First Aid
Effective Leadership and Management
Observation, Assessment and planning
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Neuroscience for Personal Development
Growth Mindset
My Availability
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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| Before School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Morning | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Afternoon | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| After School | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| Evening | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Overnight | no | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Last Updated: 20/12/2024 | |||||||
My Fees
- Childminding from £7.00 per hour
Simone's Child Care standard opening hours are 8am-6pm. Extended hours are available from 7:30am to 6:30pm. Please contact Simone's Child care if you would like to discuss this option.
My Local Schools
- I provide drop offs and pick ups at Downsview Primary and Nursery School
My Ofsted Inspections
The inspection grades below have been obtained from the Ofsted website based upon the registration number the childminder has provided to us. You should verify this information yourself prior to using the childminder.
My Documents
- DBS Check (added 04/10/2023)
- Ofsted Certificate (added 29/09/2023)
- UK Driving Licence (added 04/06/2023)
Reviews
Below are the latest reviews for Simone. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk users and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
We have had the most wonderful experience with Simone. She has been looking after our two toddlers (age 1 and 2) and we can’t recommend her more highly. She is extremely professional and is very helpful in aiding them with their development. We trust her implicitly - she is kind and reassuring and warm and clearly adores children, and they love her too. She put us (and the children) at ease very quickly. Her house has a great set up with a specific big toy-filled room for the children and lovely large garden. She takes the time to get to know what the children like and teaches them around these likes. She even brought them gifts back from her holiday which was so sweet!
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My daughter started with Simone this summer for 4 weeks and I have already seen so much progress. Simone has been amazing with her taking into consideration her SEN needs, My daughter was comfortable from the first settling in session so there was no need for the full 3 sessions. I feel that a lot of progress was made this summer as my daughter was only speaking a few words i have also noticed that now that she is putting more words together to make a sentence. Simone has been really kind and professional from the start and i would highly recommend her services. My daughter has enjoyed baking with Simone and eating fresh organic raspberry's grown from the garden! Her home is clean and spacious with a great learning station for the kids to learn there letters and numbers!
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We used Simone for emergency childcare for 3 months when there was a delay in my daughter’s nursery start date. Simone and my daughter very quickly formed a lovely relationship and my daughter was always happy to be dropped off at ‘Mone’s’ house. She felt very at home there, loved the home cooked food and range of thoughtful activities Simone would arrange for her. As parents we felt confident leaving our daughter in Simone’s care, so much so that she is continuing to offer after school pick ups for both our children from September. Even though my son only went once a week after school, he too formed a lovely bond with Simone. She puts in a huge amount of effort in all that she does and was always flexible when we needed it. We are so thankful to have found her and happily recommend her to friends.
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Simone has provided care for my daughter in December as we had an emergency and needed someone to cover for us.
Simone was very willing to help us out in such short notice.
My daughter spent 3 weeks in Simone Care, which she enjoyed every moment of it, her needs were met, she enjoyed her home cooked meals and snacks and all the activities she done with her, she was able to make Christmas cards for us and her grand parents which she was very proud of and done a lot of Christmas activities also.
Simone took her to parks and for local walks she had an amazing time in her care.
I would highly recommend Simone Childcare to anyone while looking for a home away from home setting for your children and someone of kind and nurturing nature.
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I went for a viewing yesterday in order to start my children in January. Simone showed me round her setting and I was very impressed with her warm welcome and clean environment. I look forward to my children starting next year.
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by
Layo
about
Simone
on 04/11/2023
Response by
Simone
on 04/11/2023:
Dear Layo,
Thank you kindly for your review. I will take on board what we discussed and I look forward to welcoming your little one in January.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Simone
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